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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:24:13 +0100
From:      "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com>
To:        User Mat <mathew.kanner@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PVR-150 on 6-STABLE: success and mini HOWTO
Message-ID:  <200712200324.13345.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071219230002.GC52400@tube5.mine.nu>
References:  <200712191659.28032.danny@ricin.com> <20071219230002.GC52400@tube5.mine.nu>

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On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:00:02 you wrote:
> On Dec 19, Danny Pansters wrote:
> > I just completed setting up my brand new Hauppauge PVR-150 (MCE I think)
> > on 6.2-STABLE using the newish port from usleep. All this info can be
> > found, but it is scattered, so I thought it might be useful to put
> > together a short step by step guide:
>
>     (I'm becoming active again).
>
>     It also works on 7 and 8 with the attached patch.  Tuning works
>     best by frequency.  Once I choose s-video or composite input, I
>     can't switch back to the tuner.

I get that too (reload of kernel module needed), and using -m panics the 
kernel.

>     I'm also kinda working on mythtv, I've got the latest built, but
>     it's failing at probing the inputs of the card (the version in the
>     ports works at that part, but fails to get schedules).  I've never
>     used mythtv so I don't have reference to a working version.

I'm mostly interested in integrating pvr support into kbtv, with embedded 
mplayer if need to (12% wcpu).

>     For now, I'm using a slightly hacked version of the devel version
>     of mpegcat (multimedia/gopchop) to split the mpeg stream on the
>     hour.  I intend to send those patches to the author, they are
>     trivial.
>
>     --Mat

For (video) viewing, mpeg2dec (over sdl) also works, but that's without any 
audio stream playing yet.

Dan



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